{"id":293208,"date":"2023-12-30T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293208"},"modified":"2023-12-30T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:54:51","slug":"the-world-will-not-stop-burning-coal-and-using-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293208","title":{"rendered":"The world will not stop burning coal and using oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Don Ritter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Kerry tilts at reality like Don Quixote tilted at windmills. While the 28th UN-related Conference of Parties (COP 28) was wrapping up in Dubai, America\u2019s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate fumed about funding and building new coal-fired electricity generating plants. He declared himself a \u201cmilitant\u201d opponent of coal. He very personally decried those who would build a new coal plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet he knows full well that China has funded and built over a hundred coal-fired plants in the past year alone and is building a staggering 234 gigawatts of coal-fired generation. Each gigawatt of generation is equivalent to a new 1000 megawatt coal plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those mind-boggling numbers and the respective increase in emissions of CO2 dwarf hard-won CO2 reductions in the U.S. and Europe. China alone is the mega, indeed, giga windmill Kerry is tilting at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COP 28 was hosted by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The leader of a giant Abu Dhabi-owned oil company was the conference chairman who actually advocated for the importance of fossil fuels in the future of the global economy, stating that \u201cthere\u2019s no science to support demands for a phase out of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next host country for COP 29 is another oil-wealth producer, Azerbaijan. The major petro-state producers in the Middle East plus Russia, Algeria, Guyana, Iran, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and other nations are all looking to expand production for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consuming world is paying them handsomely to do so. They may pay lip-service to a politically and publicly popular climate-change narrative, but given the global economic reality, there is no reason to believe that producers will ever give up their primary wealth creators, oil and gas, and for that matter, coal. Nor will the energy consuming nations, given the symbiosis between producers and consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the UN, some 70,000 attended COP 28, with the wealthier, including Mr. Kerry, arriving on their jet-fuel consuming, CO2-creating private jets. The conference was a boon to Dubai\u2019s tourist industry, and a remarkable destination for tourists. But, in the end, the COP 28 final statement incorporates only hortatory language to \u201ctransition\u201d away from fossil fuels, not a pledge to \u201cphase-out\u201d fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard-core climate activists, led by Kerry, aggressively pursued \u201cphase-out language\u201d but did not get it. That means China, India and developing nations all over the world will continue to burn coal to get their electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The benefit for others<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will continue to need oil and gas to drive their cars, power their economies and use refined derivatives of oil and gas that are part of just about everything produced in the modern world. When John Kerry declares that there should be no coal plants \u201cpermitted anywhere in the world,\u201d his words are applied in fact only to the United States, not \u201canywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of the COP 28, the big global CO2 emitters will still be able to produce fossil fuel-based wealth, while the Biden administration will continue to try to kill coal \u2014 plus oil and gas to a lesser extent (for now) \u2014 and thereby undermine America\u2019s industrial and manufacturing sectors and residential ratepayers here at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never mind impending blackouts as coal and gas plants are prematurely \u201cretired\u201d (83 gigawatts worth) resulting from of \u201cgreen\u201d government regulatory policies and massive taxpayer-funded programs to \u201cgo green.\u201d In the Pittsburgh region alone, two coal-fired power plants will be prematurely retired this year because new rules make them uneconomic \u2014 rules handed down not from Harrisburg, but from Washington. Rules that pay no attention to how much the area needs that power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

States like Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky are hard hit by the government\u2019s war on coal \u2014 a war that doesn\u2019t apply to miners in Russia, Brazil, India and China, to name just a few countries that live off coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. has some 450 years of coal reserves, the world\u2019s largest. Pennsylvania has some of the finest bituminous coal in the world, coal that consuming and developing countries around the world covet. The state still has nearly 5,000 workers employed in the coal industry. And the administration wants to give it all up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diminishing the democracies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coal is the major target now, but Kerry and company are coming for the CO2 emitted from natural gas next. Marcellus Shale, the largest shale formation in the country, providing natural gas and wealth to Pennsylvania and beyond, is at risk if the climate alarmists and regulatory bodies in Washington have their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the still-developing world, led by China and India, rapidly expanding coal-fired power generation in addition to their increasing appetite for oil and natural gas, squeezing America on CO2 emissions simply makes no sense. Such a strategy only diminishes America and Europe, while empowering China, Russia, and the petro-states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It cripples the world\u2019s democracies while strengthening the authoritarians. And it does nothing to save the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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